Topics - Over The Hill

I went through this horrible score wait for the October test, so I thought I'd just give you guys a little warning so you can perhaps steel yourselves: it will be a few hours after people start reporting their scores on this board until everyone has theirs. In October, the first scores were reported around 5 PM or so, and mine didn't come up on the website until 8. They release the scores by school (though I have no idea how the schools are ordered) so that when other people in your school can see their scores you will be able to see yours too.

EDIT: Scores may be released by test center and not by school. For me and my friends those two processes would have been indistinguishable, because our schools had only one test center each. And if it is by school, the ordering is definitely not alphabetical. I suspect it's pretty random.

Does anyone know it? I checked the website but couldn't find anything. They finally received all of my materials this week and it would be nice to go complete before New Year's, but if they have the 25th through the 1st off, the chances of that are pretty low. I bet Mr. Stock will be making another round of acceptance calls before Christmas, but as we've seen before, he doesn't always do that from the office.

On 11/4, I gave them all the relevant Dean's certification forms, complete with addressed, stamped envelopes, which it turns out they don't even require. Last week, I got an email from Stanford, saying that my certification wasn't in yet. I assumed that Stanford had lost it, or it had gotten lost in the email, since Georgetown had been considering me complete for a while. Today I got an email from Harvard, also saying that my certification is missing. And then I realized that Georgetown doesn't require a certification, so that's how my application was able to go complete. So my dean's certifications have never been sent out.

I am so frustrated with my Dean of Students Office. They will certainly be receiving a call from me tomorrow.

UPDATE: So I called them this morning (12/14) to ask what happened. My certifications were marked as being sent out on 11/4, but had never actually been mailed. The woman was very apologetic and the school will be sending them out today. I guess that's about as good a result as I could hope for.

I recently realized that I submitted my app to Georgetown as regular decision rather than early action. Have any non-EA applicants here been accepted yet? I know I have the numbers for G-town, but their lack of a response has made me worry that my PS is so horrific that they're postponing a decision on my file. I actually like my PS, but I have that tiny, nagging fear.

I submitted my apps in early November, thinking that would beat the December LSAT rush and be sufficiently early. But now that some people who applied in September and October are getting their acceptances from GULC, Michigan, and Stanford, I'm beginning to regret not submitting my apps earlier.

At first I thought, "Haha, those guys are crazy obsessive, submitting their apps on September 15. I won't be stressing out like them!"

Now I'm thinking, "Damn, it'd sweet if I'd submitted my apps as soon as the Oct. LSAT results came in and I'd already received a complete notice or a phone call from HLS."

I'm curious if anyone here is considering taking extracurricular classes at whatever university they end up attending for LS. I'm pretty interested in taking some master's-level Japanese classes if it's at all possible. It seems like it would be a waste to let that opportunity go by without making use of it.

2) Apparently only one of their admissions officers is actually making the calls. Your file may be under examination right now by a different adcomm.

3) We have no idea what order they are using to examine the files. Perhaps the current batch they are evaluating was chosen largely at random (of course with a preference for the applications that came in earliest).

The more you think about it, the less there is to worry about. Then again, maybe I can speak calmly since it's not even an issue for me yet. My second LOR was processed yesterday. Maybe in two weeks I'll start getting nervous.